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Are You Using AI To Improve Your Photographs?

Our lives are being changed in many ways; none more than the application of complex computing power to photography. In the old days, I spent hours in a darkroom, making image after image and trying to get them right. These days, I would only go back to a wet darkroom for a nostalgic look at the past. Here is one of my office squirrels, taken with a digital camera, circa 2005, and enhanced today with AI.

Sweet Diane Was A Beautiful Baby.

I have been enhancing images from my youth, so I decided to do one for Diane. This is one of her favorite photos. AI is making old photos new again.

Bring Your Loved Ones Back To Life In Color.

I have been playing around with an AI image enhancement software application, and, yesterday, I showed the amazing images held in some 75 year old black and white photograph. Today, I took one of the images, of my Mom and Dad, and applied some subtle color, including eyes and skin tone. This is the result. 

Osprey Landing On Nest.

I took this at Lake Seminole Park here in Pinellas County. Happy Saturday.

Help! I Can't Stop Using AI To Enhance Family Photos!

Hello. My name is Rick. I am a photo enhancement addict. Mom and Dad at wedding reception in 1945.

 

AI Enhanced Family Photo.

I am getting addicted to AI photo enhancement. This is the last one, I promise. At least for today. My blended family in 1956 or 57. 

FutureLawyer And His Mom.

I have published this photo of my mom and me before; but, I have now enhanced it with AI. Amazing. (I know, but all babies are cute).

AI Can Bring Your Relatives Back To Life.

As we grow older, we become more interested in our personal histories. But, many of the images that are stored in paper photo albums were taken with cameras that were primitive, by today's standards. Of course, much of our youthful misadventures are best left to the dustbin of history, anyway. Modern technology has made the improvement of old images easy, and AI tools can make quite a difference. This image of my parents in Korea a couple of years before my birth is a good example. The original is fuzzy, bleached, and impossible to view in detail. With the application of my current imaging software, with AI, the result is stunning. RIP, Mom and Dad. 

Most Of Us Live Lives Of Quiet Delusion.

Go Outside And Look At A Sunrise.

In this poem, I was thinking about the narrow focus lives we lead, filled with non-essentials and pretend happiness. I shot this image at sunrise nine years ago today, standing on a path at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The real world is so much bigger than we are. Take a moment and marvel at it. That is living. Everyone says they will stop and smell the roses. But, we don't, do we? 

 

Their money they buried.

Their daughters they married.

Their valuables they carried,

everywhere they went.

They locked their doors.

They seldom took risks.

They ate healthy food.

They spent hours on exercise machines.

They lived like they wouldn’t die,

and refused to think about death.

They worked until they slept,

and slept for half the day.

They didn’t learn the lessons of history.

They spent their time

trying to control their environment.

They never wanted to risk rejection,

so they never loved.

They didn’t want to disappoint the neighbors,

so they bought everything they saw.

They never saw a sunrise,

and spent their sunsets watching TV.

They were surprised when life ended,

and wondered where the time went.

They thought they would live forever;

but, the money and valuables and

swimming pools and fancy houses

lived longer than they did.

Those things live forever.

We don’t.

What did you say you were doing today?